There are plenty of existing "hourly" climate data products (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/pbz/hourlyclimate.htm http://www.erh.noaa.gov/pbz/hourlyclimate.htm and htt

There are plenty of existing "hourly" climate data products (http://www.erh.noaa.gov/pbz/hourlyclimate.htm http://www.erh.noaa.gov/pbz/hourlyclimate.htm and http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds093.1/ http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds093.1/ are two examples.) Calling this one "real-time" is needlessly confusing, because "real-time" sounds like it should somehow be better than "hourly," but it's not.